Nehru. In 1991, Madhavan K. Palat was president of the section on ‘Countries other than India’, Indian History Congress, where he delivered his lecture, Forms of Union: Russian Empires and the Soviet Union. During 1992–94, he was senior fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, New Delhi, India. Between 2001 and 2003, he was a member of Eminent Persons Group, Governments of India and Russia, to advise on India–Russia relations. He was also a member of the Committee on Indo-Russian Relations, Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi (2002). In 2002–03, Madhavan K Palat was Member, Committee on the National Defence University, Ministry of Defence, New Delhi. He was appointed Honorary Fellow, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata (2008). Madhavan K Palat has been Member, Executive Council, Association of Indian Labour Historians, New Delhi since 1998. From 1987 to 2006, he was Correspondent, Revue Européenne des Migrations internationales, I.N.E.D., Paris. He has been Member, Council of the Association of Russian Philosophy, Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia since 2001. Madhavan Palat is also associate member of the University of Chicago Centre for East European and Russian/Eurasian Studies (CEERES) University of Chicago. In recent years, he has written and lectured extensively on important historical figures, ideas, and trends. His lecture on Hobsbawm, titled 'The Interesting Ideas of Eric Hobsbawm', delivered at Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML) in 2012, the lecture on Dostoyevsky, titled 'The Grand Inquisitor and the Holy Fool', delivered on the Foundation Day of the Indian Council of Historical Research (ICHR) in 2014, the lecture on Nationalism: Universal, Composite, and Unitary, delivered in November 2014 on the occasion of 125th birth anniversary celebrations of Jawaharlal Nehru, the lecture on 'History and Memory', delivered at Jawaharlal Nehru University in 2014, and the one titled ' Geopolitics or the Dominion of the World', delivered at Nehru Memorial Museum & Library (NMML) in March 2015 fall in this category and have been published as independent papers. In November 2017, he delivered his lecture Utopia and Dystopia in Revolutionary Russia: The Russian Revolution Centenary Lecture. In November 2019, Madhavan Palat delivered the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Lecture titled The Spiritual in Nehru's Secular Imagination. Books and edited collections Social Identities in Revolutionary Russia, ed. (Macmillan, Palgrave, UK, and St Martin's Press, New York, 2001). History of Civilizations of Central Asia, ed., vol. 6, Towards the Contemporary Period: From The Mid-Nineteenth